The name is a history lesson: Vittorio Veneto came into being in 1866 by joining Ceneda and Serravalle, and took the king's name a few months later; the Veneto came later still, together with the title of city, once the battle had made it famous. For in the autumn of 1918 the engagement that ended the Great War on the Italian front was fought here, and in this same town, after Caporetto, the Austro-Hungarian command had had its headquarters: the museum of the Battle tells the story rigorously and without rhetoric. The new name, however, did not please everyone. The diocese refused to change it and went on calling itself the diocese of Ceneda until 1939, because the Curia had no intention of honouring the king who had just taken from it the Romagna, Umbria and the Marches.
The two halves are still recognisable, and neither the town hall planted midway nor the avenue built expressly to weld them together has been enough. Serravalle, set among the cliffs, is a jewel: piazza Flaminio, frescoed loggias, artisan workshops, and the oratory of the Battuti, which the Touring Club has listed among Italy's hidden treasures for its fifteenth-century frescoes. Ceneda answers with the cathedral, the memory of its bishops, who were also counts and remained so under Venice, and the museum devoted to Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's librettist, born here in 1749. All around lie the prosecco hills and the forest of the Cansiglio: the Veneto in miniature.
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📅 Every year, on 16 January
Vittorio Veneto celebrates Saint Titianus of Oderzo on 16 January, the day of his death; the saint's body rests in the cathedral of Ceneda, inside a bronze sarcophagus in neo-Byzantine style.
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